The East Coast boasts a growing trail network of almost 3,000 miles, linking cities from Maine to Florida. But there’s a gap in Philadelphia.

Source: Could Spring Garden Street become the city’s iconic greenway?

EB Realty Management released this gorgeous, dorm-room poster-worthy rendering of how some of the more than 35,000 square feet of new retail space would look like around the redeveloped Divine Lorraine, the Met Opera House, Studebaker Building, and Mural Lofts.

Source: You Definitely Want This Rendering Hanging On Your Wall – North Broad Renaissance – Curbed Philly

The city is moving to purchase a portion of the Reading Viaduct in anticipation of the development of an elevated park there. Last week,…

Source: PlanPhilly | City moves to acquire part of the Reading Viaduct

Reinvention has long been the name of the game in the “Loft District,” aka Callowhill, where industrial skeletons live second lives as airy condos, and one of the city’s hottest music venues materialized out of a railroad luggage transfer facility.

Source: The future of the Rail Park and Callowhill – Metro

With the exception of Carl Dranoff and Liberty Property Trust, a lot of Philadelphia’s construction is taking place thanks to developers from elsewhere. It makes more sense, then, that Eric Blumenfeld’s Divine Lorraine might finally happen. I’ve said that before. Who hasn’t? But Blumenfeld’s Divine Lorraine is being bankrolled by a developer versed in Manhattan-ease who just so happens to love the Divine Ms. L more than a kid at his first Chuck-e-Cheese birthday party.

Philly Bricks: Hope for the Divine Lorraine…again.

I think the Friends of the Rail Park made the right move taking money from Catalyst. I think it really ties the concept together. Plus all that money! Although the annual payment plan they signed up for barely keeps up with inflation so its like getting the same $70k check every year until 2040! Still though, 30% of the time it can just show clips from Eraserhead.

Pee-UEDs — I think the Friends of the Rail Park made the….

Civic Commons Map

The proposed Reading Viaduct would be proof that Philly can have nice things. We give the city a lot of grief, but that’s just because we’re pushing it to be the place that we want, and know, it can be. This untapped potential just took a massive step towards becoming a reality thanks to the William Penn Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation donating a total of $11,000,000 to the Reading Viaduct Rail Park and four other public spaces.

Philebrity.com » Blog Archive » And Now, Today’s GOOD NEWS: The Reading Viaduct Takes A Huge Step Forward.

The proposed zoning map for Chinatown North/Callowhill will introduce commercial, residential and mixed-use zoning districts north of Vine Street, enabling this area to continue the current trend of non-industrial growth and meet the growing demand for housing from Chinatown’s core.

Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation.

The photos were all captured by writer and artist Natalie Hope McDonald, who was granted access before the late 19th-century building was gutted.

Stunning Photos of a Pre-Blighted Divine Lorraine – Worth 1,000 Words – Curbed Philly.